Sixteen year old Rosie Pendleton from Selby beat off some strong competition from young people across Yorkshire and Humber to win an Apple iPad2 for her creative writing business. Launched recently, Wildfire is a free, innovative business support programme for young people and it is currently running competitions to find the sharpest young business minds. [...]

Wildfire Competition winner wants to “rewrite the world of literature”!
by ypef on March 2, 2012 in Challenge, Enterprising Skills, Skills
Ofsted publishes report on “Economics, business and enterprise education”
by ypef on June 8, 2011 in Enterprising Skills, Skills
This Ofsted report is based on data from 28 primary and 100 secondary schools as well as 33 colleges from across England, between April 07 and March 10. It covers both formally assessed economics and business courses and whole-school enterprise education. One of the Recommendations is that the Department for Education should “as part of [...]
Starbucks and UK Youth offering £10,000 to young people in Leeds NOW!
by ypef on May 31, 2011 in Enterprising Skills, Funding, Skills, Social Enterprise
During 2011, UK Youth, together with Starbucks, will be rolling out a program called ‘Youth Action‘ in major cities across the UK and Ireland (including Leeds). The program will offer young people, who have ideas of how to improve their communities, the opportunity to access up to £10,000 seed funding and volunteer time from local [...]

Are you Ready? Rotherham Ready Annual Conference on 28 June 2011
by ypef on May 26, 2011 in Enterprising Skills, Skills
Tuesday 28 June at Magna, Rotherham Recently crowned the ‘Most Enterprising Place in Britain’, Rotherham is internationally recognised for its achievements in creating a culture of enterprise. Rotherham Ready, the children and young people’s enterprise programme, has created a unique approach to preparing the town’s young people for the challenges and opportunities of life in [...]

KC Enterprise Academy Celebration
by ypef on March 29, 2011 in Enterprising Skills, Skills
Jane Walton receiving award on behalf of YPEF Services Ltd for it’s contribution to developing enterprising young people in Hull. The award was presented as part of the KC Enterprise Academy’s celebration event to present students from Malet Lambert and Sydney Smith schools with OCR certificates on completing the enterprise programme which is supported by YPEF [...]

Outstanding Impact across Yorkshire
by ypef on February 2, 2011 in GEW, Skills
Global Entreprneuership Week (GEW) event organisers in Yorkshire and Humber have been praised by Enterprise UK for their ‘Outstanding Impact’ This year, 131 (out of 700) events received the ‘OUTSTANDING IMPACT’ accolade; a real testiment to the diversity and quality of events which took place. In this region, the following organisations received the award: Hull [...]
Be part of World Skills London 2011
by ypef on December 18, 2010 in Skills
The WorldSkills London 2011 Education Experience – available from Monday 10 January 2011– is a high quality programme of activities and teaching resources to help educational professionals delivering Personal, Social, Health and Economic education (PHSE) to motivate their students to make serious and informed decisions about their future careers. The Key Stage 3, 4 and [...]
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Global Entrepreneurship Week 2012 – 12-18 November! August 17, 2012
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revamped website for youth enterprise in Hull! August 17, 2012
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Enterprising Minds – Carnegie Trust research report June 26, 2012
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Bootcamp to put Yorkshire’s fledgling entrepreneurs through their paces June 12, 2012
- Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011 – National Report March 23, 2012
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GEW in Hull November 16, 2010
- Day 5 GEW in North Lincolnshire November 19, 2010
- GEW Yorkshire and Humber launched in Sheffield November 16, 2010
- Day Three of GEW! November 17, 2010
- Students asked to get creative to promote rail travel in the north January 14, 2011